[eepro100] problem with Debian woody freeze (possibly eepro 100 problem)

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, David Lambert wrote:
> > > On Sunday 23 December 2001 08:17 am, Donald Becker wrote:
> > >
> > > > This detail pretty clearly points to a hardware problem.  A driver
> > > > shouldn't be able to hang the machine in such a way that the power
> > > > switch doesn't work.
> > > I only have limited knowledge in this ares, but couldn't this happen if the
> > > power switch was intercepted by ACPI?
> >
> > Yes, the ACPI suspend signal might be handled by the OS power management
> > code.  But the 4 second override (soft power off, vs. suspend from a
> > momentary press) should be handled by the hardware.
> 
> Holding it in for 4 seconds works. Just pushing it in does not. Does that
> mean that it *is* related to ACPI (whatever that is)? Please see my other
> message. Sorry about the misinformation.

OK, then try the updated driver at
   http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
      ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/eepro100.c
using the instructions at
   http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html  

Don't use the source RPM -- it has not been updated for the changes in
the latest 2.4 kernels.


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